Comments on: CycleWatch – 100 days

By: Pascal's bookie

Pascal's bookie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:50:06 +0000

It’s Homer-erotic.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:37:39 +0000

You’re trying to make a little funny there, aren’t you Inventory2?

‘Cos there’s no way that anyone could be so retarded as to think there was a real comparison to be made, surely.

You couldn’t really be that thick, could you?

By: Inventory2

Inventory2 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:47:06 +0000

You’re not “photoshopping gay porn” there are you Eddie?

Cos that would be very hypocritical, I’m sure you’d agree, after all the crap you guys gave WhaleOil last year for supposedly doing just that.

By: mickysavage

mickysavage — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:12:26 +0000

And our tax break?

And why was Mr Worth sacked?

And why will he not answer these questions?

By: Kevyn

Kevyn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:04:01 +0000

“The ostensible primary reason for the cycleway was to create jobs. A secondary one was to create cycleways of dubious economic benefit.”

Ah, the secondary comment has echoes of the “Cullen’s Trainset” comments from the righties.

The primary comment is both premature, because we’re only five days into the new financial year, and probably confusing abscence of evidence with evidence of abscence. While central government hasn’t signed any cheques to pay for anything yet, local government have been busy preparing their applications for a share of the dosh. Whether they’ve actually had to employ extra people to do this or used volunteers or existing staff is a question that no one seems to have asked, and therefore the answer is unknown..

Admittedly my only source of info has been the Marlborough Express which covers the Coast and upper South Island where this plan is seen as a way to get existing plans completed faster. Much the same way that district roads boards would have responded to the introdution of the petrol tax and the Main Highways Board.

By: Ianmac

Ianmac — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:14:15 +0000

There are many districts building their own recreational cycleways and have been doing so for years. They have little to do with a North South connection but follow local needs and are paid for locally. BUT before long John Key will trumpet success and add all those local km’s of circuits together, and say, ” I did it. I have built X km’s of glorious cycleways and so you critics eat that!”
PS: I did enter the anti-spam word and checked it exactly but was rejected????

By: So Bored

So Bored — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:39:38 +0000

Ummmm, err, so now we have multiple cycleways? Do they meet scratch with our requirements? Is Spandex a requisite for entry (imagine it on Maurice B).

By: lprent

lprent — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:37:50 +0000

The ostensible primary reason for the cycleway was to create jobs. A secondary one was to create cycleways of dubious economic benefit.

The economy is bleeding at least 2000 jobs a week according to the benefit numbers (the crudest and lowest possible measurement). You’d think that some effort could have been expended on pushing forward even the 3 proposed ones that showed up in the cabinet papers. When the projects finally get underway, they will be in areas that have relatively few unemployed compared to say Auckland.

The whole exercise is pointless as an employment exercise – and it still appears to be uncosted.

Talking of work – time to catch the bus…

By: greenfly

greenfly — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:29:12 +0000

It’s very tempting to mock and there are grounds for doing so, but the cycleway is crystalizing in the background (back blocks) and will appear in time. We’ll look foolish if we are still crowing. We’ll have dozens of them, rather than the One Way, but it’s time to shake the moths out of your Spandex nevertheless.

By: lprent

lprent — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:13:36 +0000

Provision for handling inflated political ego’s?

By: So Bored

So Bored — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:04:33 +0000

So far we have asked that the Jonkey Cycleway includes:

* increased bridge loadings for Mr Brownlee,
* banked corners to keep downhill performers like Nick Smith on track.
* Makkers enroute supplied logistically by said cycleway.

Anybody got any other additional requirements?

By: So Bored

So Bored — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:58:44 +0000

At the risk of sounding very very very boring, WHERE IS OUR F*******G CYCLEWAY?????????